Genesis - UN Version  

• 1947 
• Milians, Max P. 
• Drawing 
• Cartoons 

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Drawings / paintings

Genesis - UN Version

36.5 x 29 cm

1947

Original political/editorial cartoon, 1947, by American editorial cartoonist Max P. Milians (1908-2005), probably for the Jewish Standard, with which he was associated for most of his life, although his work was also syndicated across America from the 1930s to the 1970s. Milians signed his cartoons with nine zeros as a punning underline. Clouds clear away to reveal the ‘New Judea’ after ‘1877 years of international inaction’. As the title suggests this is related to the UN Partition Plan for Palestine agreed in November 1947 and accepting the principle of the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States. A smaller cloud, ‘Arab dissidence’, remains, referring to the fact that none of the neighbouring Arab states accepted the plan, and there was stiff resistance to it in Palestine as well, resulting in the outbreak of civil war shortly afterward. Produced in ink and crayon over graphite on textured card; image area 31 x 27.5 cm, card size 36.5 x 29 cm. Title in pencil in upper margin. Signed lower right. Very good condition